Well, I know who is more easily replaced. Our field sales force has one of the highest turnover rates compared to benchmarked companies and we always seem to backfill all of those positions fairly easily.
If we use your logic, that no one wants to move to TO, then I would say that it's harder to attract home office therefor making those position more vital and valuable. However, with that being said, why is it that you think that everyone and anyone who works in TO had to move there from somewhere else? We are based 30 miles from the second largest city in the county, I'll bet that less than 5% of home office employees have come in from field sales...and no one cares, we are doing just fine. Most of the home office folks were living in California well before they joined Amgen. Some have made the move from The Bay area, some from San Diego, and a handful of NE Corridor Big Pharma's, but I find far more TO employees are from CA or have been here for a very long time. Just because your manager is telling you TO is looking and hoping to bring in field sales doesn't mean that's true. Not saying that folks from the field who have moved in house are not doing good work. Many times they have. However, there isn't some huge void that is not being filled.
Furthermore, why would you disparage people who want to grow a career? That seems so odd. Lastly, real nice bragging about not working all that much...doesn't that prove the point on the other thread that less of you is a good decision? Reduce the number of reps to the ones who actually put in a full days work versus being bloated and having people work part-time hours?
